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PATENTED JULY 7, 1908.

` W. C. & F. W, HOBBS.

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A TTOHNE YS UNITED STATES PA TENT OFFICE.

,WALTER CLIFFORD IIOBBS AND FRANK WINFIELD IIOBBS, OF WHITE LAKE, SOUTHDAKOTA.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July '7, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, IVALTER CLIFFORD I-IoBBs and FRANK WINFIELD HoBBs,citizens of the United States, and residents of I White Lake, in thecounty of Aurora and State of South Dakota, have invented a new and Imroved Bin, of which the following is a full, c ear, and exactdescription.

This invention is an improvement in bins as more especially constructedfor holding nails and such like hardware, but also adapted as aconvenient means for carrying various other kinds of merchandise.

The invention has for an object, among others, the provision of a binembodying one or more tilting pockets which are readily accessible andmay be lifted from their seats for cleaning, refilling and otherpurposes.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bin constructed in accordance withour invention, showing one of the pockets removed; Fig. 2 is across-section through the bin shown in Fig. l, and Fig. 3 is aerspective view of one of the pockets of the bin, showing theconstruction of the bottom thereof.

In the construction of the bin, a casing or cabinet 5 is employed, ofsuitable shape and capacity, that shown being divided by a ver ticalpartition 6, into two compartments open at the front of the casing. Inthese compartments are arranged the desired number of pockets 7, twobeing shown in the present instance, arranged one above the other. Theseats or supports for these pockets comprise horizontall -arrangedflanged plates or strips 8, respectively attached to the partition 6 andto the opposite side wall of the casing; each set of flanges beingconnected by, or disposed at the opposite ends of, a cross-bar 9, onwhich one of the pockets is seated.

That part of each pocket which engages with the cross-bar 9, ispreferably in the nature of a corrugated plate 10 secured about midwayof the bottom of the pocket, and contiguous to an angular bend formedtherein, making the said bottom slightly V-shaped. The pockets extend tothe back of the casing when seated on the cross-bars, and projectthrough the open front of the casing and slightly beyond the outlinethereof, which brings them to an accessible position; this positionbeing more pronounced when the pockets are tilted to depress the forwardportions thereof, as indicated in dotted outline in Fig. 2.

The location of the pivotal or swinging connection of the pockets, itwill be observed, is such that the pockets are almost perfectlybalanced, but will have a tendency to drop on the inner portions of theflanged plates when the forward portions of the pockets are released,thus drawing the pockets further within the casing and simultaneouslytherewith carrying the forward part of their bottoms to an inclination,whereby the contents of the pockets will tend to move inward and notdrop out upon the floor.

Vhen a pocket of the bin is depressed when removing nails, or such otherdevices as it may contain, therefrom, the forward portion of its bottomseats on the flanged plates 8 when it reaches a horizontal position, andat the same time contacts either with the top of the casing or with theflanges of the plates 8 thereabove, according to its location in thebin, and is thus held against further outward movement. When it isnecessary to remove the pocket from the casing for cleaning, refillingor other purposes, it is only necessary to bodily lift it from its seaton the cross-bar 9.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent:

A bin comprising a casing having seats at the sides, a pocket arrangedwithin the casing and projecting through the front thereof, having aslightly V-shaped bottom, a crossbar in fixed relation to the casingarranged between the seats intermediate their length, and means carriedby the pocket at the angular bend thereof adapted to removably engagesaid cross-bar, whereby the pocket may be tilted thereon to bring theopposite portions of the bottom thereof into alternate contact with theinner and outer portions of the seats and remain open in both extremepositions of its movement.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WALTER CLIFFORD HOBBS. FRANK WINFIELD HOBBS.

Witnesses:

F. V. RICHARDS, O. C. RAFFENSPERGER.

